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#! rnews 1673 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!fuw.edu.pl!news.nask.org.pl!news.free.net!mgulvt.mgul.ac.ru!mgulvt!and From: and@mgulvt.mgul.ac.ru (Andrey A. Perminov) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: need help booting freebsd Date: 4 Oct 1995 15:36:06 GMT Organization: Moscow State University of Forestry (Russia) Lines: 34 Message-ID: <44u9l6$1of@mgulvt.mgul.ac.ru> References: <447855$7j3@ns.sunbelt.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mgulvt.mgul.ac.ru X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] sroyal@SunBelt.Net wrote: : I have a 486 33MHz IBM compatible pc with an 245 meg ide maxtor c: : and a 540 meg maxtor d: drive. Partitioned d drive 251 meg dos, the : rest freebsd. I successfully installed freebsd. : I chose to install boot manager but upon rebooting pc the boot : manager did not execute. : Because of this problem I booted off of floppy. At the boot prompt : I typed wdc(1,a)/kernel and got the following messages: : partition is out of reach from the bios : can't find wdc(1,a)/kernel : I chose wdc when probing devices at startup this was the device that : my d drive was at. I also tried wd(1,a)/kernel, sd(1,a)/kernel and : so on. These also gave me the same message. : Any help would be greatly appreciated. : Steve Hi Steve! When boot manager write to you wdc(1,a) - it say you cat enter 'wdc1' or 'wdca' - if my memory serve me right. Try simple press enter for boot. Boot manager will try load kernel from default directory. Regards Andrey -- Andrey A Perminov e-mail: and@mgul.ac.ru System Administrator Moscow State University of Forestry (Russia)